Shaw Prize Winners Content




Kenji Fukaya (2025)

For his work in symplectic geometry.

Peter Sarnak (2024)

For his work on arithmetic theory of thin groups and the affine sieve.

Shing-Tung Yau (2023)

For his work on mathematical physics, arithmetic geometry, and more.

Vladimir_Drinfeld (2023)

For his work on the Langlands conjectures for GL(2) over global
fields of positive characteristic.

Ehud_Hrushovski (2022)

For his work in model geometric model theory, among other things.

Noga Alon (2022)

For contributions to discrete mathematics and model theory.

Jeff Cheeger (2021)

For contributions to modern geometry.

Jean-Michel Bismut (2021)

For contributions to modern geometry.

David Kazhdan (2020)

For contributions to representation theory.

Alexander Beilinson (2020)

For contributions to representation theory, algebraic geometry,
and mathematical physics (Copilot).

Michel Talagrand (2019)

For his groundbreaking work on probability theory, concentration
inequalities, and spin glasses (Copilot).

Luis Caffarelli (2018)

For his groundbreaking work on partial differential equations (Copilot).

Claire Voisin (2017)

For her groundbreaking contributions to algebraic geometry, particularly
in Hodge theory and mirror symmetry (Copilot).

Janos Kollar (2017)

For contributions to algebraic geometry.

Nigel Hitchin (2016)

For profound contributions to geometry, representation theory,
and theoretical physics (Copilot).

Henryk Iwaniec (2015)

For a body of work that reshaped analytic number theory, especially
the study of prime numbers and automorphic forms (Copilot).

Gerd Faltings (2015)

For groundbreaking contributions to number theory and arithmetic
geometry. He is best known for proving the Mordell Conjecture (Copilot).

George Lusztig (2014)

For fundamental contributions to algebra, algebraic geometry, and
representation theory (Copilot).

David Donoho (2013)

For contributions to modern mathematical statistics, especially
in sparse data recovery and noise reduction (Copilot).

Maxim Kontsevich (2012)

For his pioneering work in algebra, geometry, and mathematical
physics, particularly deformation quantization, motivic integration,
and mirror symmetry (Copilot).

Richard Hamilton (2011)

For his pioneering work in contributions to geometric
analysis, Ricci flow (Copilot).

Demetrios Christodoulou (2011)

For groundbreaking work on nonlinear partial differential
equations in geometry and general relativity (Copilot).

Jean Bourgain (2010)

For profound work in mathematical analysis (Copilot).

Clifford Taubes (2009)

For contributions to geometry (Copilot).

Simon Donaldson (2009)

For his brilliant contributions to geometry in 3 and 4 dimensions
(Copilot). [Donaldson Invariants, QFT, TQFT]

Ludwig Faddeev (2008)

For his his influential contributions to mathematical physics. (Copilot).

Vladimir Arnold (2008)

For his influential contributions to mathematical physics (Copilot).
[The Kolmogorov-Arnold-Moser (KAM) theorem.]

Richard Taylor (2007)

For his deep contributions to number theory and symmetry (Copilot).

Robert Langlands (2007)

For founding the Langlands Program, a grand unifying mathematical
framework (Copilot).

Wentsun Wu (2006)

For creating a new interdisciplinary field---mathematics mechanization
---that merged topology, algebra, and computer science (Copilot).

David Mumford (2006)

For his groundbreaking work in algebraic geometry and later in
vision and pattern theory (Copilot).

Andrew Wiles (2005)

For his celebrated proof of Fermat's Last Theorem, a problem that
had remained unsolved for over 350 years (Copilot).

Shiing-Shen Chern (2004)

Chern is regarded as the father of modern differential geometry, a
discipline that connects geometry with topology, algebra, and analysis
(Copilot). Chern classes. Chern–Simons invariants. Generalized
Gauss-Bonnet theorem. David Hestenes and Geometric Calculus. Much
work left to do.



Shaw Life Sciences and Medicine Prizes: (I'm only showing one, just for the record.)

Wolfgang Baumeister (2025)

Awarded the 2025 Shaw Prize in Life Sciences and Medicine, for his celebrated pioneering cryo-electron tomography (cryo-ET), a breakthrough that allows scientists to visualize the molecular architecture of cells in their natural environment. (Copilot).